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Spotlight On Glark

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
One of the ideas that came up on the Ruby web page redesign list was a rotating set of application and library spotlights. The idea didn’t take root...

Interviewing Gregory Brown

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
Gregory is a free software developer from Connecticut. He is currently an undergraduate student at the University of New Haven pursuing a double major...

RubyConf*MI in review

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
This weekend, I flew out to Grand Rapids, Michigan for the first ever RubyConf*MI — one of the first regional Ruby Conferences (David Alan Black reminded...

Interviewing the team behind RubyConf*MI

almost 6 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
Brandon Keepers, Mark Van Holstyn, Zach Dennis, and Craig Demyanovich have been working on RubyConf*MI, a regional Ruby conference in Michigan for a while...

Profiling Ruby code with ruby-prof

almost 6 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
Ever since I saw Charlie Savage’s blog post about ruby-prof 0.4.0, I’ve been thinking about how great it was to see faster and better profiling...

Creating C extensions in Ruby, *really* fast

almost 6 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
First, there were the threads about rewriting Ruby apps in C, then I wrote a pair of follow up posts (here and here). These got picked up by an article...

FOSCon and Regional Ruby Conferences

almost 6 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
FOSCon was amazing! Picture 100 Ruby geeks and Ruby geek wannabes gathered in a fairly small industrial building that’s been converted into something...

Interviewing the JRuby Developers

almost 6 years ago by Pat Eyler on O'Reilly Ruby.
Alternative Ruby implementations seem to be on the move throughout the Ruby community. JRuby is the furthest along at this point, so I decided to talk...

New Series at O'Reillynet Ruby Blog

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on On Ruby.
Based on a discussion over at the Ruby web page redesign mailing list, I've started a new series of articles over at O'Reilly's Ruby blog...

New RubyCorner . . . Oooh, Shiny!

over 5 years ago by Pat Eyler on On Ruby.
After several weeks of work, the folks over at RubyCorner.com have released their new version. I've been lucky enough to see it while they worked...